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MOTORV 1 Io.389,473 Patented Sept. 11, 1888.

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GUSTAV L. JAEGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,473, dated September 11, 1888.

Application filed March 21, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUSTAV L. J AEGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and .State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Motors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a motor in which the motive poweris supplied byaliquid raised by capillary attraction; and the invention consists in the combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a motor operated by capillary attraction for producing oscillating motion. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

The apparatus shown in Figs. 1 and 2 consists of a lever, F, which is composed of a rod, f, and its fulcrum is on a pivot, g, secured in standards h. On one end of the rodfis secured a weight, i, and on its opposite end are fastened two plates orjaws,jj, between which is placed asheet, k, ofblotting-paper or other absorbent material, so as to form an absorbent pad. In its normal condition that end of the lever F which carries the weighti is the heavi e st and said lever-assumes the position shown in Fig 1. Beneath the absorbent pad is is a tank, G, containing water, and on the end of this tank is secured astrip, Z, of blotting-paper or other material capable of drawing the water up by capillary attraction. \Vhen the lever F is in its normal position, the upper end of the strip Z bears upon the absorbent pad k, while its lower end dips into the water in the tank G. As the water is drawn up by the Serial No. 159,662. (No model.)

capillary attraction of the strip Z, the absorbent pad It becomes charged with water,and by the weight thus added to this pad that end of the leverF which carries said pad sinks down until it rests upon the edge of the tank G. In this position the supply of water to the pad k ceases, and as the water contained in the pad evaporates the weight of this pad is diminished and the lever F returns to its normal position. The pad 76 is then again charged with water and the lever F makes its second down-and-up stroke.

This motor may be used for opening and closing ventilators at stated intervals, for making and breaking an electric circuit, for operating small toys, 'and other similar purposes which will readily be suggested to those skilled in the art.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure u hand and seal in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

GUSTAV L. JAEGER [L. s]

lVitnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

